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Galaxy Outlaws by J.S. Morin is not Firefly. 7/10

J.S. Morin’s Galaxy Outlaws is usually recommended as a book series similar to the Firefly TV show.  That is just wrong.  If you like Science Fiction, you must watch Firefly.  It’s described as a Western in space.  That doesn’t do the TV show justice and is part of why Firefly didn’t catch on when it originally aired, and only lasted one season.  The characters in Firefly make it a perfect TV show.  10/10.  There isn’t a thing that can be changed to improve it.  If you don’t like Firefly, then you don’t like that genre.

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WSJ: Electric vehicles aren’t working out like they’d hoped.

The Electric-Vehicle Bubble Starts to Deflate

The Electric-Vehicle Bubble Starts to Deflate

It’s ironic, to say the least, that the U.S. is seeking to imitate China’s economic model at the moment that its industrial policy fractures. Look no further than its collapsing electric-vehicle bubble, which is a lesson in how industries built by government often also fail because of government.

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Beaming energy from space. Death ray or utopian solution?

SciTechDaily: CalTech satellite beams energy from space.

A space solar power prototype, SSPD-1, has achieved wireless power transfer in space and transmitted power to Earth. The prototype, including MAPLE, a flexible lightweight microwave transmitter, validates the feasibility of space solar power, which can provide abundant and reliable power globally without ground-based transmission infrastructure.

This is one of those dangerous ideas that sound wonderful until you understand it.

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